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Magnificent Failure
A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era
By John Martin Campbell, Kenneth W. Karsmizki
Stunning photographic testimony to the hard realities of western farming “An evocative marriage of the visual and the verbal, Magnificent Failure stands as a poignant essay on the human condition that will appeal to everyone interested in the American West.” —Carlos A. Schwantes, author of The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive HistoryIn words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, John Martin Campbell vividly recreates the life and times of the western homestead era, the period from about 1885 when the prairie lands lying west of the longitude of the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers. More than 70 black-and-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record bleak landscapes and abandoned farms, outbuildings, farm implements, and hand tools—mute testimonies to the failed hopes of several million families who settled on these arid and semi-arid lands.Campbell ... read more
